Means for listing checks.



C. G. WINTER.

MEANS FUR LISTING CHECKS.

APPLICATION min Auems, 1914.

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MEANS FOR LISTING l(LI-ICKS.

Specification of Letters Patent..

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Application filed August 14, 1914. Serial No. 856,859.

To all whom it lmay concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. \VrNTEu, a citizen of the United States, residing at l/Vebster, in the county of Worcester and State of lliassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Means for Listing Checks, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to a means for listing checks or similar instruments, and partieularly to means by which certain data may be simultaneously entered upon the check and upon a check register or record sheet. 1

For the purposes of such a register it is desirable to list merely the check number, the name of the payee, and the amount of the check. lt is customary, however, in writing checks under modern commercial conditions to place more or less additional data upon the face of the check. When the checks are to bc mailed in the so--called outi look or window envelops this data includes lwhich combine to make up the amount of the check, together with other data which it is not necessary or desirable to reproduce upon the check register.

It is the object of my present invention to provide means whereby selected data appearing upon the face oi' a check may be simultaneously. entered upon the check and upon a check register, while other data. entered upon the check is omitted from the register.

With this object in View, my invention contemplates in its preferred form the use of an intermediate sheet adapted to be inserted between the check and a suitable check register or record sheet, and so constructed and disposed that data written above certain portions thereof will be transferred to the register, while data written above other portions of said sheet will not be transferred.

i My invention further consists in certain devices, arrangements, and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Two preferred forms ot' my invention are shown in the drawings in which,

Figure l is a face view of the preferred Jform, showing the several elements in their operative relation; Fig. 2 is a partial face View of one end of the intermediate sheet;

Fig. 3 shows a portion of the face of the check; F ig. 4 is' a view similar to Fig. l.,

showing a modified form of my invention; Fig. 5 is a detail view of one end of the intermediate sheet in its modified form; Fig. (i is a detail view showing one end of the check shown in Fig. 4; and Fig. 7 shows the end portion of the check detached and ren versed.

Referring to the preferred form shown inV Fig. 1,'my improved means for listing checks comprises essentially three elements; a check register or record sheet l0, a check or other the tace ot' the check. As shown in theA .lra\\'ing, this data comprises4 the check number, the name of thepayee, and the amount of the check. The spaces for receiving this datamay be separated by ruled dividing lines, or they may be indicated merely by suitable marks or other indicia 13 on one or both side margins of the sheet. The check may be of any usual form, it being merely desirable that the name of the payee and the amount of the check shall appear upon a single line.

In order to transrer the selected data ,to

the check register, I provide the intermediate sheet 12 which is placed between the cheek and the register. ln the form under consideration, the sheet or shield l2 consists of a sheet off'blanlo paper having a slot or opening 14 formed therein, said opening being covered by av narrow strip of carbon paper 15 secured in position on the sheet.'

kVlhen this sheet is introduced between the check l1 and the check register 10. the opening 14 is so positioned that it will underlie that portion of the check on which appears the data selected for record. In orderto readily assemble the check and the intermediate sheet in their proper relative position, it is desirable to form the intermediate sheet of the same size as the check.

.lt is usually customary to print the check number upon the check when the checks are immufactured. ln order to permit the check number to be recorded upon the cheek register without duplicating this number upon the face of the check, I provide a flap or extension 16 (Fig. i2) secured to the lefthand end of the intermediate sheet.

Then the parts are assembled for use, the tlap 1G is brought forward and folded down l outside ot the left-hand end of the face ot' the check. It is then possible to write the number of the check upon the Hap, this number being` duplicated upon the check Iregister by the carbon strip, while the liap itselt| covers the face ot the check and prevents the check number from being printed thereon.

lV here the checksare written upon a typewriter, the several elements are assembled as shown in Fig. 1, the check and its intermediate sheet being alined upon the check register by reference to the indicia 13. For this purpose the cheek 11 may be provided at one or both ends with corresponding marks or other indicia 17 and, where the Hap 1G is used, corresponding mark 18 may be placed thereon.

In order that the figures indicating-the amount ot the different checks may be properly alined vertically upon the check register, the upper or lower edge of the check, or both, may be provided with marks 19 for locating the check laterally upon the register.l

In Fig. 3 I have shown the left-hand end ot a check as it appears after removal from beneaththe flap 16, this figure showingclearly the omission of the check number from this portion of the check.

Instead of providing the intermediate sheet with the flap 16 and writing the check number at the time the check is made out, I may provide a column of numbers at one edgeot the check register, as shown in Fig. t. by reference to which any particular check may be alined inl proper position. When the number is thus placed upon the check registerl the flap 1G may be omitted.

Vit will be obvious that instead of using theuari'ow strip of carbon paper secured to thev intermediate sheet, I may provide a loose sheet of carbon' paper ot the same size as the check and for certain purposes to be hereinafter described this arrangement is desirable. The most important and'essential feature of my invention lies in the provision of 'the opening 14 corresponding in position to the location of the data to be preserved upon the check register.

In the form shown in Fig. 4, the carbon .se-verat items for reference and for this pur'- pose'I provide theright-hand end of the check with an extension Q1 adapted to be folded back and tobe interposed between the back ofthe carbon sheet and the front of the intermediate sheet. This extension may havethe check number printed upon the back side thereof, as viewed in'Fig. 7, or the number may be placed upon the check and upon the extension simultaneously at the time the check is written. After the check has been written and the selected data simultaneously placed upon the4 check register, the extension 21 imiybedetached and will then appear as shown in Fig. 7, presenting in convenient `form the check number and the dates and amounts ot' thescveral items comprising the amount ot' the check.

It will be obvious that the intermediate sheet used in Fig. may also-be provided with a. fiap corresponding to the f'lap 1G in Fig. 2 so' that the check number may be written upon the check register as in Fig. 1, instead ot alining the check with the previously printed lcheck numbers shown iu Fig. 4.

Having thus described my invention, it will be seen that I am able at a single operation to writeall data appearing upon the check and at the same time to enter upon the check register theselected data which it is desirable to preserve. In this way a single horizontal space may contain the selected data from each check, regardless of the amount and location of the other data which is placed upon the check at the time the register record is made.

It is to be understood that the word check as used in the claims is intended to include all kinds of negotiable instruments containing selected data which it is desirable to enter upon a register or record sheet.

Having thus described my invention, it will be evident that other changes and modifications may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scopethereot as set forth in the claims, and I do not wish to be limited to the details herein disclosed, but

lVhat I do claim is 1. A means for listingchecks comprising a check register adapted to receive selected data from a plurality of checks, a check having a horizontal space for the same data, and an intermediate sheet comprising` a shield of plain paper of substantially the same size and outline as said check' and having a relatively narrow horizontal slot therein, and a strip of carbon paper ili'nderlying said slot, said intermediate sheet being vadapted to be positioned between said check and said register with said slot and carbon paper underlying the horlzontal space, on said check and thereby causing transferl of the data in said space to said register While transfer of other data from the check to the register is prevented by the shield of plain paper, and said check and register having cooperating index marks adjacent their ver p tical edges by reference to which they may nuinlicr of the check, the name of the payee,

and the amount of the check, a cheek having a horizontal space for the naine of the payee and the amount of the check, and an intermediate sheet/adapted to be positioned loe-v tween said check and said register, said sheet having an opening therein adapted to overlie said space on said register, said opening being covered .with carbon paper and said sheet having a flap at one en'd adapted to overlie a portion of the face of the check, whereby p data may be placed upon the register Without causing it to be reproduced upon the face of the check.'

3. A means for listing checks, comprising a check register having a plurality of horizontal spaces, each adapted to contain the naine of the payee and the amount of the check, a check having a horizontal space for the saine data, and an intermediate' sheet adapted to be positioned between said check and said register, said sheet having an opening therein covered with carbon paperffand adapted to underlie the space on said check containing said data,l said check having an extension on one endradapted to he folded beneath the carbon sheet and to receive additional dataY written ,near one end of cheek, While at the saine tinie the transfer of said data to the check 'register is prevented.

'In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

CHARLES G. WINT/ER. Witnesses J. O. B. BRYANT, JOHN CUMMINGS. 

